Chords for Too $hort - 03 The Ghetto

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_ Talking about [D] the ghetto, _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Bm] funky, funky ghetto.
_ _ [E] _
_ Trying [Bm] to survive, _ _ [E]
trying to stay [Bm] alive.
The ghetto, _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Bm] the ghetto, funky, [E] funky ghetto.
_ [Bm] The ghetto, _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Bm] the ghetto, funky, [E] funky ghetto.
[Bm] Even though the streets are funky like burned [E] out.
Dope things die with a [Bm] punch in their mouth.
Old school buddies not doing it right.
[E] Every day it's the same and it's the [Bm] same every night.
I wouldn't shoot you bro, but I'd shoot you that fool
[E] if you played me close and tried to [D] test my cool.
[Bm] Every day I wonder just how I die.
[E] Only thing I know is how [Bm] to survive.
There's only one rule in the real world
[E] and that's to take care of you, only [Bm] you and your.
Keep dealing with the hard times day after day.
[E] Might deal me some dope, but then [Bm] crime don't pay.
Black man trying to break in my house again.
[E] Thought he got off the dope doing [D] time in the pen.
[Bm] Even though my brothers do me just like [E] that.
I get a lot of love so I'm [Bm] giving it back to you.
The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
_ [Bm] The ghetto, funky, [E] funky ghetto.
_ [Bm] The ghetto, trying [E] to live our [Bm] lives.
The ghetto, _ _ [E]
tell them what it do, [Bm] sure.
So just keep the game and don't call it crap.
[E] Cause to me, life is one [Bm] hard rap.
Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine.
[E] She was nine months pregnant, ain't [Bm] nothing changed.
Six hundred million on the football team
[E] and her baby died just like a [Bm] dope fiend.
The story I tell is so incomplete.
[E] Five kids in the house, no [Bm] food to eat.
Don't look at me and don't ask me [E] why.
Momma's next door, [Bm] getting hot.
Even though she's got five miles to [E] feed.
She'd rather spend her money on a [Bm] HIT.
I always tell the truth about things like [E] this.
I wonder if the mayor overlooked [D] that list.
[Bm] Instead of adding to the task force, send some [E] help.
Waiting on him, I better [Bm] help myself.
Housing Authority and the OPD.
[E]
All these guns just to handle [Bm] me and my family.
The ghetto, people [E] are dying.
_ [Bm] The ghetto, children [E] are crying.
[Bm] The ghetto, don't [E] have enough to eat.
[D] The [Bm] ghetto, don't even have [E]
shoes on [D] there.
[Bm] The ghetto, _ _ [E] _
_ [Bm] even though they put us down and call us animals.
[E] We make real big [Bm] banks and buy brand new clothes.
Drive fancy cars, make love to [E] stars.
Never really sharing just [Bm] who we are.
We use alias names like Too Short.
[E]
Sell you stuff [Bm] you might kill for.
Young kids grow up and that's all they know.
[E] He was teaching in school, now he's [Bm] slaying dope.
Only thing he knows is how to [E] survive.
But will he kill another brother [Bm] before he dies in the ghetto?
You keep one eye [E] open all day long just [Bm] hoping.
You should pay your bills and not drink too [E] much.
Then the problems of life you'll be [D] throwing up.
[Bm] Like me.
But you don't [E] see ten years from now where [Bm] will you be?
The ghetto, talking.
[E] Trying to get out of the [Bm] ghetto.
The ghetto, talking.
[E] But I got no place to go.
[Bm] The ghetto, talking.
[E] Trying to survive in the heart of the [Bm] ghetto.
The ghetto, talking.
Cause that's the [E] only place that [Bm] I know.
So much game in a Too Short [E] rap.
Can't be white and whites [Bm] can't be black.
Why you want to act like someone [E] else?
All you got to do is just [Bm] be yourself.
We're all the same color underneath.
[E] Short dog is in the house you better [D] listen to me.
[Bm] Never be ashamed of what you [E] are.
Proud to be black stand [Bm] tall in heart.
Even though some people give you no [E] respect.
Be intelligent when you put them in [Bm] check.
Cause when you're ignorant you get treated that way.
[E] And when they throw you in jail you got [F#m] nothing to say.
So if you don't listen it's not my [E] fault.
I'll be getting paid and you'll be [Bm] paying the cost.
Sitting in the jailhouse running your [E] mouth.
While me and my people try to [Bm] get out.
The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
Talking about [Bm] the ghetto.
The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
Talking [Bm] about the ghetto.
The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
Try to survive.
[Bm] The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
Try to stay alive.
[Bm] The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
Talking [Bm] about the ghetto.
The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
Got no [Bm] place else to go.
The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
[Bm] Try to stay alive.
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